Rates: Start at $99 on the weekend for a studio cabin with a queen bed during the low season (Oct. 9-June 15) and $125 during high season. The largest cabin sleeps seven and costs $159 and $189 respectively. You can park right next to your cabin.

Stay here if you’re: Looking for a quiet, laid-back getaway, especially with kids, and especially if you’re on a road trip around Redstone, Carbondale, Glenwood Springs or looking for a side trip from Aspen.

The rooms are: Comfy, freestanding cabins warmed with a lot of flannel and down comforters. Some have cozy lofts. All have kitchens with everything you need to cook full meals. There are picnic tables and grills outside. Take shampoo and lotion, though. They don’t provide it, and it gets mighty dry at 7,000 feet.

They put all of the money into: Keeping this running as a farm so folks can feel as though they’re getting away from city life. There’s a terrific treehouse and play area, a stocked pond with tiny paddleboats for little ones, a canoe, a hot tub, a llama, chickens, donkeys, sheep and dogs to pet, and an antiques store on-site. The lodge has a barely working phone, a pingpong table and games, and a TV if you must watch.

The bottom line: Sweet and rustic with gorgeous views (Mount Sopris towers over). In the winter, there are snowshoe and cross-country trails leading right from the property. In summer there are cowboy singalongs and other campfire activities.

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The list highlights the Broadmoor’s scenic location alongside Cheyenne Lake and proximity to outdoor opportunities like hiking and fly fishing as perks of booking a stay there. Large rooms and a highly rated in-house restaurant, La Taverne, also made the highlights.